US Patent Issued to Intel on May 13 for "Device, method and system for optical communication with a photonic integrated circuit chip and a transverse oriented lens structure" (Arizona, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,572, issued on May 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Device, method and system for optical communication with a photonic integrated circuit chip and a transverse oriented lens structure" was invented by Changhua Liu (Chandler, Ariz.), Pooya Tadayon (Portland, Ore.), Zhichao Zhang (Chandler, Ariz.), Liang Zhang (Chandler, Ariz.) and Srikant Nekkanty (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for facilitating horizontal communication with a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip, and a lens structure which is optically coupled thereto. In an embodiment, a PIC chip comprises integrate...